Scott Olson/Getty Images The drive-by shooting killed two people, a baby’s mother and grandmother, on Monday night outside a south Chicago home.
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Roy said the shooter was “unfamiliar” to the family and that no one was in custody.
The shooting, which happened in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Monday night, claimed the lives of both the pregnant mother and the grandmother of the 11-month-old boy, who himself was injured along with two other men.
Chicago police were looking for the occupants of a vehicle that reportedly opened fire on a group of people and drove off.
The baby was shot in the side and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said. Both were pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. One of the men was in critical condition, while the other man had non-life-threatening injuries, Roy said. The latest violence all occurred on the city’s South and West sides, which historically have endured the vast majority of homicides and shootings in the city.
Among the victims are two 25-year-old men taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs and abdomen respectively.
“In a second, two generations of that family were wiped out”, Roy said.
Authorities say no arrests have been made.
A 2-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet and listed in good condition after someone accidentally discharged a gun in his home early Tuesday morning.
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Detectives were questioning a male relative of the boy in connection with the incident Tuesday morning, police said.
